1.[c]英里（= 1 609 米或 1 760 码）a unit for measuring distance equal to 1 609 metres or 1 760 yards
a 20-mile drive to work开车 20 英里去上班
an area of four square miles四平方英里的面积
a mile-long procession一英里长的游行队伍
The nearest bank is about half a mile down the road.最近的银行沿着这条路要走半英里。
We did about 30 miles a day on our cycling trip.我们骑车旅行，每天约骑 30 英里。
The car must have been doing at least 100 miles an hour.这车速肯定每小时至少 100 英里。
My car does 35 miles to the gallon.我的车一加仑油能跑 35 英里。
My car gets 35 miles to the gallon.我的车一加仑油能跑 35 英里。
2.[pl]大面积；长距离a large area or a long distance
miles and miles of desert广阔无垠的沙漠
There isn't a house for miles around here.附近数英里以内没有一座房子。
I'm not walking─it's miles away .我不会走着去的，太远了。
3.[c][usupl](informal)很多；远远地very much; far
I'm feeling miles better today, thanks.多谢，我今天感觉好多了。
I'm miles behind with my work.我的工作远远地落在了后面。
She's taller than you by a mile.她比你高多了。
4.[sing]一英里赛跑a race over one mile
He ran the mile in less than four minutes.他用了不到四分钟就跑完一英里。
a four-minute mile四分钟一英里赛跑
A quarter of a mile up in the sky someone was dancing.
在四分之一英里高的上空，有人在跳舞。
When the bullet struck just a few inches above his head, i couldn't help saying to myself: a miss is as good as a mile.
子弹打在离他的头只有几英寸的上方，我不禁叹道：死里逃生总是生。
Considering that nobody was so high within a ten-mile radius, she did not take any notice to the light openings any more.
略微想了一下，方圆十里没有这样的“高材生”，于是便不去管那缝隙了。
We go down hill to it for half a mile, and it is a pity, for it would not be an ill-looking place if it had a better approach.
我们下坡走半英里才能到，真可惜呀，要是这条路好一些，这地方倒不难看。
At the young age of fifteen, she broke the men's and women's records for her 33-mile swim across the English Channel .
她在十五岁时，游过三十三英里远的英吉利海峡，同时打破男子与女子记录；
It is cheaper to drive the motorcycle. the oil that the motorcycle used for a mile is less than other auto.
开摩托车比较便宜。一辆摩托车每英里需耗费的汽油比绝大多数汽车所耗费的要少。
She had circled through a ploughed field for a mile until the light of the fires died out behind her.
她打田畈里绕圈子走了一英里多路，直到那火光远远消失在她的背后。
If your man moves his mouth a mile a minute, 39 you're with a spontaneous, high-energy guy who may be a little too self-absorbed.
如果你的他说话时嘴动得飞快，那么39你在和一个率真的充满活力的人在一起，但他可能会点太过关注他自己的事情。
My Google car lost its internet connection near Elephant and Castle and I've had to run the last mile to the office.
我的谷歌（Google）汽车在大象城堡（ElephantandCastle）附近掉线了，我不得不跑完这最后的一英里回到办公室。
Even when a search plane circled half a mile away, it was easy to miss a gray truck buried in snow.
即使有侦察机在半里开外盘旋，也很难发现一辆埋在雪堆里的灰色卡车。
He talked a mile-a-minute and was well into his sales pitch before I had any idea what it was that he was selling.
说起话来就像连珠炮。他一上来就滔滔不绝地推销，可我连他到底卖的是什么都没有弄明白。
I want you to call the fire department and have them block off the city center in a one mile radius around the building!
我要你拨打消防部门的电话，告诉他们封锁以这座楼为中心半径一里范围的街区。
so we started and soon got to it, because the island was only three miles long and a quarter of a mile wide.
我们就出发了，一会儿就到了那里，因为这个岛不过三英里长、四分之一英里宽嘛。
On top of that was the 67-mile high-speed rail link, running through south London and Kent - the Garden of England.
紧连着它的是67英里高速铁路联络线，穿过南部伦敦和肯特郡——英国的肥田沃土。
The adult male was tangled in fishing nets about a mile out to sea. Divers think the whale may have been tangled there for up to two months.
这头成年雄性鲸鱼在距离海岸一英里处的渔网里挣扎，潜水员们猜测它已经在那里挣扎了两个月以上。
Some declared the mysterious animal to be nearly two hundred feet long; others swore the monster was more than a mile long.
一些人声称这头神秘的动物有大约两百英尺长，则其他人发誓说怪兽长度超过一英里。
It was the first call to arms, and it took place in an unpretentious white middle-class house half a mile from Spengler's office.
这是首次发出的武装斗争的号召，发出的地点就在斯宾格勒办公室不足半英里的一幢不起眼的白人中产阶级的住家。
Standing just under five feet tall, Joey was everyone's friend. His race was the long one-quarter-mile run, the full lap around the track.
Joey的身高五尺差一点点，他是所有人的朋友。他的比赛项目是十分之一英里赛跑，即赛道的一圈。
Only a picket post half a mile out, on the railroad, and a single sentinel at this end of the bridge.
只在半英里以外有一个警戒哨，位于铁道线上，桥的这一端有一名哨兵把守。
It would be crazy to try to see the 15-mile coastline between Santa Monica and Redondo Beach on anything but a bike.
骑在自行车上欣赏圣塔莫尼卡和雷东多海滩之间的15英里海岸线再合适不过了。
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